Machine for making sugar goods.



' No. 834,034. 4PATBNTED 00T. 23, 1906.

` l A, VOSSKHLBR.

' MACHINE FOR MAKING SUGAR GOODS.

-APPLIUATION FILED JANJ, 190s.

2 SHEETSSHBET 1.

TH: Narni: Ferr: cu., wasmncron, n. c.

No. 334,034. PATBNTED'OGTzmlQoe.

l y A.IvossKHLER, MACHINE POR MAKING SUGAR Goons.

AVPPLIOATION FILD JAN. 2, 1906."

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

1m: NoRRls rk'rslk co.. wasnmaron, o. c.

specification.

ALBERT vOssKHLER,

OE EGEL-N, GERMANY.

MACHINE FOR MAKING SUGAR GOODS.

Application filed January 2, 1906- Serial No. 294,339.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 23, 190,6.

' Be it known that I, ALBERT VossxHLnR, .confectionera subject of the King of Prussia, German Emperor, residing at 4 Breiteweg, Egeln, Germany, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Making .Sugar Goods, of which the following is a The object .of my present invention is a `machine by means 'of which the starch-molds for making the well-known sugar-ice goods kcan be produced not only much more rapidly, but'also in a much more regular and perfect form than now, so that the present irregular- .ity .of the material, which vhas up to the present injuredlthe appearance, the uneven for-` mation'in the casting-marks, and the like, are

avoided.

,Fig. 2 is the view from above.

same on line fy y.

A of the weight device in a larger scale. is a view from above to the same, the cover- The machine works automatically, so that ,the finished forms are pushed out of it, and. neither the filling of the molds with the material nor the forms themselves can be iniu'y enced by hand. V In Ithe accompanying drawings the machine is shown in a form of ,construction,. taken, by way of. example, as follows:

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section.l Fig. 3 is a, Fig. 4 is the Fig. 5 is the sameon line y y seen from the right. Fig. 6 is a side view. Fig.'7 g

transverse section on line fc.

plates being shown b dotted lines.

The machine consists principally of a receptacle 1 for the molds 2, a device 3 for filling the molds, a press 4 for the forms, and a device with a weight to start automatically the working of all the various parts of the machine-that is, to p ut them out of action.

The molds 2, lying in the mold-receptacle 1, are removed from the same singly by a special device for the purpose, which works from time to time andwhich in a form of construction taken by way ofV exam le is described below, and are' pushed un er a sieve 5, ywhich turns on a spindle 6. Abovethe sieve 5 is'a neck Sof a' funnel 9provided with a spiral transporter 7 restingon the spindle `6 and intended to receive the material for the forms, which consists usually of ,starch-flour, with other ingredients added. In the funnel 9 movesa spiral transporter 10 ,v

also connectedto the spindle `6, which conducts the material below and prevents its stickingv fast in the funnel. This device, which works by means of a cog-wheel -11, pushes the material for the forms through the sieve, which is closed above, fromwhereit falls into the mold 2 over the chute 12. This mold rests on the platform 13, which formsa part of ,the slideway 14, alongv which the nected to a device with a weightviz., bow 15, double lever 16, and lever 17-the sliding weight 18 of which `can be adjusted to correspond to the height, respectively the weight,

4molds 2 are shoved. The platform 13 lis conf of the material which is to be placed in the mold. Therefore platform 13, whichislgenerally above the surface of the slideway 14 when an empty mold rests upon it, Fig.- 6, dotted lines, sinks to the surface of the slideway las soon as the mold has been filled.

Now the grippers are automatically set-in motion and shove the mold underrthe formpress 4. On the way there the chutes 12 remove the superuous part of the material,

which lies piled up, and a comparatively heavy roller 19, respectively one under pressure of a spring, with its side flanges `2O rolling on the edges of the mold, slides over the portion of the material lying higher, pressing the same the molds are always filled to the same height and arrive under the form-plate I21 containing material of the same density.

This press resembles in general thelconstruction of the well-known beam-machine for metal stamps, &c., which works reciprocally through friction-wheels, and shows, ,therefore, nothing new in construction, except in its application to this special purpose `and in connection with the other devices for securing the general effect of the machine.

On the cog-wheel driver for the spindle .6 of the'fun'nel is a coupler 24, connecting the driving-wheel 22 with the co -Wheel spindle 23, which 'is set in action by a ever 25. This lever 25 sits on a vertical axis 26, on which the lever of the frictonress 4 also sits. The setting in motion and tlie putting out of action of the. s iral transporter in lthe funnel occurs, therefsre, at .the same time las the re'- versal ofthe press and, .in fact, in such a manner that when the spiral trans l ort in the funnel stops moving the stamp o thepress slightly and smoothing it, so that IOO is raised and begins to sink when the spiral transport again begins to move.

The motive power is derived from the driving-wheels 22, 28, and 29 and the driving-cord 30 in continual motion; the driving-wheel 28 moves only by means of surface friction on a movable disk 31 the frictionrolls 32 of the press-wheel 33, so that a rubbing of the wheel 28 begins at the highest or lowest position of the press-spindle.

Attached to the principal driving-Wheel 29 are crank-pins 35, which by means of sliding -bars 36 move a round bar 37 backward an lforward in a horizontal direction underneath the slideway 14. This bar 37 is attached to the transverse bar 38 in such a way as to be able to turn on its axis. On a flattened part of this bar 37 a spring 39 presses, so that it -will not turn arbitrarily on its axis. This 'turning on the axis takes place in order that a number of grippers 40 may be turned into the way of the molds 2, so that they catch the molds from behind and push them forward the axial length of the stroke of the bar 37, after which they are again turned out of 'the way of the molds, Figs. 3 and 4.

The turning of the bar 37 is caused by spi- #ral attachments on the same, which come in contact with immovable obstacles. Near ythe end of the bar 37 when the same has been pushed to the right lies a pawl 41, over which 'the spiral iece glides and then is caught behind it. f the bar 37 then moves toward the left, it is at thesame time so turned around that the grippers 40 lie horizontal, 'because the spiral piece is just so short that `its end at this position of the grippers 40 slides by the rim 41.

In order to bring the grippers 40 into the upright position, so that they may remove the molds 2, there is attached to the bar 37, near its left end, a second spiral piece 43. When the mold 2, resting on the platform 13, has been filled so full of the material that it has raised the sliding weight shoved in front of this spiral piece, with which the latter comes in contact when the vbar 37 is moved toward the left, causing said bar to be turned a quarter of its circumference and raising the grippers 40 upright, so that they come through the longitudinal slit 45 in the slideway 14 and when the bar 37 moves toward the right push forward all the molds standing on the slideway 14, after which the action of 41 and 42, as described above, is repeatedviz., the grippers 40 are again brought below the surface of the slideway. The mold now resting on the platform 13 being empty, the weight sinks, whereby the peg 44 also is pulled down, and the turning of the bar-that is, the bringing upward of the grippers-is discontinued until the mold is full again, and the weight once more acts, further, is attached to the bar 37 a horizontal shaft 46. en the weight device, consisting of the parts 13 15 16 17 18, causes the spindle to turn, as above described, this shaft appears on the side of the bar 37 and pushes a hook 47, which is attached to the platform 13, into an immovable eye 48, by means of which the platform is held fast during the time that the molds are pushed along the slideway. As soon as the shaft 46 is moved upward on the turning bar 37 the hook 47 slips out of the eye 48, and the platorm 13 with the empty mold resting upon it rises.

The rib 46 pushes in addition a lever 49 to one side,whichy lever is attached to the axis 26 and sets in or discontinues action of the funnel 3 and the press 4, as described above. Therefore during the change of the molds neither the filling with material nor the action of the press takes place.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*

1. The combination, in a machine for making forms to cast sugar-ice goods, of a receptacle, boxes in the same lying one above the other, a filling apparatus having a funnel and a sieve, a press receiving the patterns to be molded, a slideway bearing the said receptacle, filling apparatus and press and having a slot, a catching device to move the boxes on the slideway periodically, and means to set in action the filling apparatus, press and catching device, all as described and set forth.

2. In a machine for making forms to cast sugar-ice goods a filling apparatus consisting of a funnel with a neck, a spindle lying axially in the same, a sieve at its one rear end and a'gear at its other end, a spiral transporter in the funnel and such like in the neck of same, connected to the spindle, a chute underneath the funnel-neck and a roller beside that chute, all as described and shown.

3. In a machine for making forms to cast sugar-ice goods a catching device for moving on the boxes, consisting of a slideway havin a slot, a turnable bar moving'to and fro under that slot, grippers on said bar and spiral pieces connected to it, to be caught periodically by pegs and rims in order to turn the bar, a cross-bar fitted to the rear end of said bar, cranks and a connecting-rod between the cranks and the cross-bar, all as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a machine for making forms to cast sugar-ice goods means for settingin action the filling apparatus, press, catching device and the propelling of the boxes, consisting in a winch-handle connected to a crank-disk, a driving-Wheel on the disk, idle drivingwheels on the axle of the press and the axle of the cog-wheels of the filling apparatus and IOO IIO

IIS

a communication of movement between the slidewa touching the adjusting-lever, them, a coupling Working on the drivingall as deseri ed and for the purpose set forth. 1o

' Wheel on the axle of the cog-Wheels, a fric- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my tion-disk Working on the driving-Wheel of hand in presence of tWo 'Witnessesz 5 the press and coupling-levers aetingonsaid ALBERT VOSSKOHLER.

devices, an axle bearing said levers, an ad- Witnesses: justing-lever at thelower end of this axle, a MARIE SCHNEIDER.

shaft along the sliding bar below the slot in l ALFRED BHRING. 

